Glass Tiger lol.

i'm with y'all, i don't really care for the 1980s bowie, kinda like the 1990s adams!

lolz

Hmmmmm.... NONE???

Just kidding, guys!

First name that came in my mind was 'Queen'.

So many great bands listed here. I was gonna start quoting people but it just got overwhelming.

Dyna Mo's gonna make me break out my Aldo Nova shirt.


A few I'll add-

Adam Ant
Talking Heads
Psychadelic Furs
Tangerine Dream
Shreikback
Gang of Four
Echo and the Bunnymen
Stray Cats
Killing Joke
The Church


It's hard, there are alot of bands that I like from that era that kind of straddle the decades, like the Clash mentioned above, also The Stranglers, Wreckless Eric, etc.

So many good bands, hard to know where to start, but that's what comes off the top of my head.

Also Big Country by Big Country is one of my favorite songs ever and I don't know why.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10...-country_music

I LOVE that song!!!

Don't forget
Pat Benetar
Loverboy
The Tubes
The Eurithmics
B52's
Devo
Rick Sprigfield
The Cars
John "Cougar" Mellencamp
The Police
Journey
Air Supply
Hall & Oats
J Geils Band
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Pink Floyd
Prince and the Revolution
Vanity 6
Cindy Lauper
Madonna
Michael Jackson (Thriller Album)



And of course the soundtracks from
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Risky Business
Weird Science
Footloose
Flashdance
Purple Rain
Flashdance


Just trying to think of the songs I rocked out to in high school (Class of 1984!)

for me, i've really returned to my music roots over the last year, in particular, the band that got me into alternative music, the b-52's.

feel free to play this track on another tab whilst surfing gfy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EKq7i1b1ucE

I love the B-52s but the Rock Lobster, Private Idaho stuff rather than the Love Shack era (though that is a fun song when in the mood) .

Metallica, Motorhead, Mercyful Fate, The Sisters of Mercy... and many more

i'm with you, again. to be historically accurate though, the best b-52's tracks were laid down in the late 70s. so technically i am off a decade.

fifty-one 80's memorable moments

jan hammer - produced the miami vice beats

Dire straits - (Money for nothin and the chicks for free)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZEzWwKJnY

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

Very true, too bad their hit singles kind of distort their image, cause they have so much interesting atmospheric stuff on their albums.

the fixxx
butthole surfers
social distortion
d.i.
fishbone
the cramps
abcedarians
toyah wilcox
wall of voodoo
oingo boingo
xtc
black uhuru
gary numan and tubeway army (timely)

fuck yeah!!!

Just recently finished the biography of Shane Mc'Gowan



Hopefully I'll get to se The Pogues yet.

Love Stray Cats too

The one single biggest musical personality to come out of the 80's - I guess I'd have to vote for Prince, including his gay rise to the stardom he was everything he wanted to be in the past 30 years and kept total control over his music and business.

80`s pop (some dross, some not)

Johnny Hates Jazz
When In Rome
Bros
Frankie
Erasure
Haircut 100
Hue & Cry
Simply Red
Go West
New Order
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Marillion
Pet Shop Boys
Red Box
Spandau Ballet
Ultravox
A-ha

That was my 80's too!!! :thumbsup :thumbsup

Metallica

Pale Shelter is my favourite from them. That is just a properly good song.

My first husband had an on-again-off-again sex meetup relationship with Toyah back in the 'the day'. Then, I move here and she was hosting 'The Sex Show' . Yeah, no pressure! lol

thats a trip, i really remember her most from this great music doc called "Urgh A Music War" which has a killer tune of hers on it and many others in that list including Wall of Voodoo who actually have their version of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire on an 80's porn film called "Night Dreams" directed by Steven Sayadian aka Rinse Dream.

Cant believe that nobody has mentioned

Europe - The Final Countdown

metallica
anthrax
slayer
megadeth

not necessarily in that order.

80's music rocked from A-Z :thumbsup

oz wonder The Angels ... very famous in AU and around ... fuck, i have been infected by the angels and am GERMAN! they rule

If you get the chance, do. Seen them twice. Absolutely amazing! :thumbsup

Europe was overlooked for the same reason Asia was overlooked. They sucked.

Debbie Gibson
Tiffany

rick astley :)

bryan adams And made millions upon millions!

are you kidding me................
I dont know what color your eyes are baby but your hair is long and brown your lets are strong and your oh so wrong and you dont come from this town my head is full of magic,,....


https://youtube.com/watch?v=xFObRusJt24

but honestly in the 80's I was listening to everything from hair metal bands to depeche mode the cure NITZER EBB (love that band) to death metal like death cannible corpse and obituary... NO COUNTRY NO RAP.... and I still live to that motto

B-52's for sure

*such* *such* a hot line. I play them on my online radio stuff all the time but I never see anybody else doing it. Love that song.

So did Aerosmith after they went to movie soundtrack hell. Doesn't change the fact that they used to be way better.

Nor does it change the fact that he sold out. I wasn't disagreeing with your assessment Sarah baby. ;)